Michael Allegretto, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19138-6
Allegretto presented Denver-based private eye Jacob Lomax in his Shamus Award-winning first novel, Death on the Rocks , and gained more applause with Blood Stone. In the third gritty, mordantly witty adventure related by Lomax, he searches for a...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-684-19133-1
This comfortably domestic suspense thriller opens as Christine Helstrum, mad escapee from a New York asylum, drives a stolen car through freezing weather to Colorado, bent on vengeance against Alex Whitaker and his family, whom she blames for her...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (232p) ISBN 978-0-684-18758-7
Both Allegretto and his private eye, Jacob Lomax, make their debuts here in a thriller set in Denver. Lomax is the narrator of events generated by Maryanne Townsend, who hires him to prove her husband Phillip was murdered. A rich oilman, Phillip...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (261p) ISBN 978-0-684-18966-6
The stone of the title is a ruby, set in a diamond necklace given by Horace Tabor to his second wife, Baby Doe, after he struck it rich in a Colorado silver mine. Stolen along with a few million dollars worth of other jewels in a robbery 20 years...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19409-7
Shamus Award winner Allegretto ( The Dead of Winter ) perfectly paces his fourth Jacob Lomax mystery. Just back from a Mexico vacation, the Denver-based PI is hired by the defense in a murder case that seems like ``more than the violent end of a...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Avon Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71120-8
Denver-based private eye Jacob Lomax's third case becomes complicated when a car bomb kills the barber/bookie father of the runaway teenager he is seeking. ``It is a monumental task that Lomax accomplishes finally, maintaining suspense in a many-laye
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Michael Allegretto, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73643-9
The domestic tranquility that Lauren Caylor and her five-year-old daughter, Emily, have found with Lauren's second husband, Richard, in quietly upscale San Miguel, Calif., yields to a domestic nightmare. Lauren realizes that she is being followed...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71442-1
Christine Helstrum, killer of her son and his adoptive mother, escapes from an asylum and torments the man whom she widowed, his new wife and son, who find beheaded mice and broken latches in their home. A ``comfortably domestic suspense thriller,''
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Michael Allegretto, Author Simon & Schuster $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73644-6
This formulaic suspense thriller will disappoint fans of the Shamus award-winning author (for Death on the Rocks ) of the Jake Lomax series. Divorced artist Valerie Rowe invites bashful, socially inept Leonard Tully to lunch after he gets her purse...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $19.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0070-7
A young woman seeks the truth behind her sister's death in this fair-to-middling mystery focused on a small town and its secrets. Annie Honeycut dies in a night fall from the roof of the Owen Mansion in Lewiston, Colo., while on an assignment to...
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Michael Allegretto, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0186-5
Deft plotting and the engagingly ironic narration of Denver shamus Jake Lomax are nearly wasted in this less than gripping work. A few years back, accountant Martin Blyleven died in a plane wreck, leaving a wife, a child and an insurance policy. He...
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